The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1887-09-17

General Political Notes.

N. D. Chronicle: The men who seek omces
from McEnery and then shout for Nichols are
the most itense of all factionists, and should
be bottled up.
AT meeting held at Moreauvile, Avoyeiies
parish, on the Goth ult., I. H. Thorpe, Esq,
of the Marksville bar, was endorsed and re-
commended to both parish and district con-
ventions to fill the vacancy in the 9th Con-
gressional District.
Capitolian Advocate: Hon Don Caffery, in
his address at the Nichols meeting in Opel
ousas, was very humorous and entertaining
and withal very laudatory Of Gov. Nichols,
but we do not recall the suggestion OF SIN
gle reform measure.
N. o. Chronicle: The editor of the st. Ian
dry Democrat complains that he did not get
near enough to the platform in Opelousas to
hear Gen. Nichols speech, but how about the
baked meats and other fixiusY We fear ne IS
too modest, and has not learned the art OF ell
bowing through crowd.
Feliciana Sentinel: The refoFmers tear their
hair over a personal government matched IN
the brain" of Major L. A. Burke and others,
but they glory over personal administration,
which they are trying to hatch with the as
sistance Of those eminent hatchers, tit2pat-
rick, Mealey, Davey and Duty.
From the amount and character OF the ora
tory displayed by some of the speakers at the
Nichols meetings, it would seem that there rs
as great q necessity now for wrestling the gov
ernment of the State from the Democratc
party as there was for wrestling lt from the
Republicans twelve years ago. however, as
the speakers have failed to point out 10 their
programme any specific reforms that are very very
urgently needed, it must be concluded that
the main object of the fight is to put McEnery
out and put Nichols in. But whether such q
move would be reform is question OF Sc
rious import and the Democracy OF the state
are SO considering it.-Capitolian- Advocate.
! The Rayne Signal piquently says:
| In answer to a question put to him by Mt.
Dupre at Opelousas, Gen. Nichols is report
! ed to have used the following language: From
| a democratic stand point think it is proper
| that a candidate should be the nominee of a
regular convention, but if there is any rascal
ity about it, or if the nomination is carried by
| fraud. am in favor of appealing to the party
direct | don't believe in rascality inside the
party or outside" Now, the question is, it
/ Gen Nichols should be defeated for the NOM
ination will he not be ready to put up the cry
of raseality, and fraud, and bolt the Conven-
| tion and appeal to the party dlrectf Let MIN
| answer this"
The Marksville Bulletin in discussing on the
State campaign, says:
"That the State campaign is progressing IN
q very satisfactory manner to the friends OF
Gov. McEnery. The great fuss made about
| personal government is SO simple Ia ITS very
nature that the people are asking themselves
H
against the levee Governor. And it Gen;
Nichols was elected, an occurrence that will
never happen, what kind of government Will
his be2 is there man SO simple as TO suppose
that he will appoint his enemies to ofnce. ~
there is any one OF this kind in our midst we
pity him. Colonel Hollingsworth's letter to
Senator Jonas indicates what the policy
would be-"
The Picayune in July, 1873, while Gen. Mich
oils was Governor published the following. II
does not compare very we'll with its present
position on the gubernatorial question
s.Ihe State Administration IS more eTpensap'
in all its departments than 1t is in other Stafe'
of the Union and yet no one will pretend thai
Louisiana is better able than any other State
to bear the burden of government. lt is NOR
espensive, more ertragagdat that 1t a0as s's tha
State prior to the sgar, aud get it would De 40
surde to pretend that the resources OF Louis
lana are equal to what they were i'll ante oet
lam times But the people for all that hav'
mot lost faith in themselves or IN the grea
principles of their party. They DO not t'ltess,
to surrender the party and its potsey TO NE tedo
egsh;p and dictation of the aeDaagogues acho hag
abused their trust The spirit Of resistance t.
corruption, fraud and extravaganza which IN
! | spired all their efforts throughout the regim
of Warmoth and Kellogg animates them still
I and will never be at rest until they have al
:. stta.:ned the fit coDsumation OF their iaoors.
b CapitoIian Advocate Our ''aesseeyyac ''aeseeyyac :Fend ma
, tured friend Mccormick, of the Lake Charie
: Commercial, gets off this inquiry which "
8 take great pleasure in answering: "Wonde
whether or not we owe the extraordinar
. warm summer of the present year to the b'
Q nificent administration of Governor McEnery
/. Will some of his organs please inform us
:. this subject" We have not heard any of th
q Governors friends laying claims of that aor'
! and we are sure they are perfectly wiiiin
It that Gov Nichols should haved due credit fo
t it, as his red hot Campaign" has no dont
e affected the temperature several degrees, thu
u emitting him to all the glory that such II
$ suit can give We might add howeve
g Brother Mccormick, that there is cold wss
= coming and we should not be surprised ths
IS the &eformers will find when it rolls owe
them that Gov. McEnery will be on top. Inc
o we will have no hesitancy in claiming that b
benifcent administration has had somethir
@ to do with starting the wave.